YouTube Trends & Channels Scraper

This Apify Actor scrapes trending data from YouTube. It extracts popular channels, trending videos by category, and popular keywords for over 25 countries.

Features

• Multi-Country Support: Scrape trends for World, US, UK, India, Brazil, Japan, and many more.
• Category Filtering: Get trends for All categories or specific ones like Music, Gaming, News, etc.
• Detailed Stats: Extracts views, likes, comments, and metadata for each video.
• Popular Channels: Retrieves the list of currently buzzing channels and their recent videos.
• Popular Keywords: Gets the hottest keywords of the day.

Input Parameters

The input of this scraper is a JSON object with the following fields:

Field	Type	Description	Default
country	String	The country to scrape trends for (slug format, e.g., united-kingdom).	world
category	String	The specific category section to focus on (e.g., music, gaming, all).	all

Supported Countries

• World
• India, Indonesia, United States, Brazil
• Saudi Arabia, France, Japan, Germany,
• Thailand, United Kingdom, Turkey, Mexico
• Philippines, Spain, Vietnam, United Arab Emirates
• Russia, South Africa, Canada, Switzerland
• Australia, Chile, Netherlands, Italy, South Korea

Output

The results are stored in the default dataset. Each item represents a snapshot of the trends for the selected country and includes:

• Country: The country scraped.
• Scraped URL: The source URL.
• Popular Channels: List of channels with their recent trending videos.
• Popular Keywords: List of top keywords.
• Categories Data: A dictionary where keys are category IDs and values contain the list of trending videos in that category.

Sample Output

{
  "country": "united-kingdom",
  "popular_channels": [
    {
      "channel_name": "MrBeast",
      "recent_videos": [
        { "title": "I Built 100 Houses", "url": "https://youtube.com/..." }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "popular_keywords": ["football", "election", "music"],
  "categories_data": {
    "music": {
      "name": "Music",
      "videos": [
        {
          "rank": "1",
          "title": "New Song - Official Video",
          "stats": {
            "views": "1.2M",
            "likes": "50K",
            "comments": "2K"
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

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